Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered ... Attendees visited dozens of vendors to buy taro-related crafts, art and food. The experience also offered educational opportunities through booths ...

When intrepid Polynesian settlers rooted in Hawaii between 1000 and 1200, they brought some staple crops with them, including taro. Taro was then turned into poi, a sticky, sour, dough-like food ...

The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo Pahia started growing taro, or kalo in Hawaiian, under the tutelage ... Much of the food is grown and sold locally. The remainder is consumed by individual ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...